I agree with them that they have freedom of action. So do we. Close the embassy and leave. No more money to the army. Let them starve. They will pretty quickly as they are grossly insufficient in grain.

It's a nice touch that they pull this demo off on 9/11. The proper question isn't "why do they hate us" but "why do they want us to hate them?". I don't understand what they think the upside of this is?....Bring back the Mamelukes. When Egypt was run by castrated Albanian slaves, that was the true golden age. Egypt will never again be prosperous or happy until they are ruled by castrated Albanian slaves.

Obama currently has the lead in the Presidential race, but it is a close thing that could go either way.

This could be a good "Sister Souljah" moment for him. If he got on TV and said something along the lines of "the US government will make no apology for the free speech of American citizens, and will make no concessions to those so demand one" -- I think he'd lock up the race.

Hell, I'd vote for him. If only because I am sick. to. death. of American Presidents kissing foreign Muslim ass just because those barbarians missed out on the age of enlightenment.

The State Department should have politely told them to GFT but they have even less backbone that Obama.

As for Carter, if that weak-willed appeasing pantie-waist had told Iran they had 2 hours to release the hostages or Iran would bombed and then DID IT I think many of the problems of the past 30 years would not exist.

This could be a good "Sister Souljah" moment for him. If he got on TV and said something along the lines of "the US government will make no apology for the free speech of American citizens, and will make no concessions to those so demand one" -- I think he'd lock up the race.

"We firmly reject the actions by those who abuse the universal right of free speech to hurt the religious beliefs of others," the U.S. embassy said in its statement.

While not technically an apology, it's damn close. It's my understanding that ambassadors serve at the pleasure of the President. I would hope that the embassy wouldn't be issuing statements to the press without the approval of the ambassador. I'll be absolutely stunned if the President either rescinds that statement or removes the person who authorized it. The idea that he might actually come out and state unequivocally that the US won't apologize for US citizens exercising their right to free speech is laughable.

Cultures can be rock-bottom incompatible. Free speech is a perfect example. It's a culture-bound concept, centuries in the making, embedded in a whole host of implicit social assumptions. It sure as hell ain't some "universal right", whatever the idiots at State blither on about, or how many UN manifestos gas on about an idea most people don't really "get".

Cretinous Western universalists, of course, don't see the obvious incompatibility of some cultural foundations. Since they're ideologically committed to a really, really, really poorly thought-out universalism + multiculturalism, they have to endlessly deceive themselves trying to square the circle of a universal code. So it all ends, inevitably, with them giving away the farm. One of the great ironies of history is that the crusade for "universal human rights" will leave stubborn particularist cultures intact, while Western Man is stripped of his own traditional cultures, freedom of speech included.

Now they've said, "The statement by Embassy Cairo was not cleared by Washington and does not reflect the views of the United States government.

Fine, the President rescinded the embassy's statement, then personally said this...Appearing with Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton in the White House Rose Garden, Obama said: “We reject all efforts to denigrate the religious beliefs of others, but there is absolutely no justification to this type of senseless violence.

If you reject the right to free speech, you have no business being President of the United States.